Alex Flinn Quotes
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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String theory seems to be incompatible with a world in which a cosmological constant has a positive sign, which is what the observations indicate.
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Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.
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I've been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight.
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Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
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High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.
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Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
